EDITORletter

Your editor at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair.

Accolades All Around

I’m thrilled to announce that Washington Gardener Magazine received the 2022 Media Awards Silver Medal of Achievement for Consumer Magazines (Circulation < 20K), presented by GardenComm: Garden Communicators International. We also won a Silver Medal for our Social Media, specifically our Twitter account. The entries are judged for “accuracy, content, and style.” This international award recognizes individuals and companies who achieve the highest levels of talent and professionalism in garden communications. Recipients of the Silver Medal represent the top winners in each competition category. The Silver Medalists then go on to compete for Gold Level categories and those winners are announced in October at the GardenComm annual meeting. In other award news, the summer interns and I submitted several items grown in our community garden plot and my home garden to the Montgomery County Fair. We won several ribbons, including a first place for specimen flowers and second place both for our peppers and tomatoes. While I’m on the subject of award winners, I’m happy to share that Izel Native Plants, based in Washington, DC, received the 2022 Retail Sales Award from the Perennial Plant Association. The award was presented at the 2022 National Symposium in Lancaster, PA, earlier this month. We are thrilled for them. I also offer hearty congratulations to fellow garden podcasters Dee Nash and Carol Michel for winning a second-place award from the National Federation of Press Women in the category of “Web and Social Media - Podcast.” Their show, The Gardenangelists Podcast, is one of several that inspired me to start the GardenDC Podcast. Speaking of inspirations, I was happy to see so many fellow garden writers’ names among the 2022 American Horticultural Society (AHS) Book Awards. Too many to list here, but bravo to all!

Sincerely,

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